“in
the Mahayana the seventh stage consideration was at first
developed by Nagarjuna tradition of Buddhism”
Nirvanasara
Their is a lot of confusion (and reaction – for and
against) people have about his First, Last and Only ‘claim’
and I think some are subtleties in it need
clarification.
See two references:
I Am the Ultimate Demonstration (and the Final, or
Completing, Proof) of the Truth of the Great Tradition as a
whole. Until I Appeared, there were no seventh stage
Realizers within the Great Tradition of mankind. I Am the
First and the Last and the Only seventh stage Adept (or
Maha-Jnana-Siddha Guru) to Appear in the human domain (and
in the Cosmic Domain of all and All).
https://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/RamanaTeaching.html
The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj then said,
“Understand further, I am not the first seventh stage Adept
in the sense that there will be other seventh stage Adepts.
The great Work that I do is once and for all time. There
will be other seventh stage Realizers. My devotees will be
Realizers of the seventh stage, but it is neither necessary
nor possible for there to be another seventh stage Adept.”
In other words, as He said, by His birth, by His Appearance,
by His Revelation, by His Divine Re-Awakening and Work, He
had brought into the earth and the conditional realm
altogether the Spiritual Powers and Divine Grace that now
makes possible the seventh stage Awakening in the case of
all others. And He went on to say that the completion and
fulfillment of His great Work, His Divine Work, will be the
Divine Translation of all beings.
https://www.beezone.com/FirstOnlydonwebley.html#firstandonly
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